Title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which Three Tales are added which were never before Printed, by John Urry ... together with a Glossary ... to the whole is Prefixed the Author's Life, Newly Written, and a Preface, giving an Account of this Edition Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Place: London Publisher: Bernard Lintot Date: 1721 Description: [52], 626, 81 pp. Errata list on verso of final leaf. 2 copper engraved portraits, engraved title page vignette and 27 engraved illustrations within. Glossary separately paged at end. (Folio) 39.5x25 cm (15¾x10), early full mottled calf, modern brown morocco rebacking. First Urry Edition. A handsome edition of Chaucer with frontispiece portraits of Urry and Chaucer and illustrations in the text of the Canturbury pilgrims. Lowndes says 1000 copies were printed. Lot Amendments Condition: Edges worn, endpapers renewed; foxing, single worm tunnel in inner margin through approximately the first half of the volume; very good. Item number: 264963
Title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which Three Tales are added which were never before Printed, by John Urry ... together with a Glossary ... to the whole is Prefixed the Author's Life, Newly Written, and a Preface, giving an Account of this Edition Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Place: London Publisher: Bernard Lintot Date: 1721 Description: [52], 626, 81 pp. Errata list on verso of final leaf. 2 copper engraved portraits, engraved title page vignette and 27 engraved illustrations within. Glossary separately paged at end. (Folio) 39.5x25 cm (15¾x10), early full mottled calf, modern brown morocco rebacking. First Urry Edition. A handsome edition of Chaucer with frontispiece portraits of Urry and Chaucer and illustrations in the text of the Canturbury pilgrims. Lowndes says 1000 copies were printed. Lot Amendments Condition: Edges worn, endpapers renewed; foxing, single worm tunnel in inner margin through approximately the first half of the volume; very good. Item number: 264963
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